Michel Foucault

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” A ficção consiste não em fazer ver o invisível, mas em fazer ver atéque ponto éinvisível a invisibilidade do invisível”

Michel Foucault

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Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 26 de setembro de 2022

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Miséria Social

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” Não podemos negar a miséria social, nem nos esquivar em relação as nossas responsabilidades quanto ao problema. Precisamos sim, atuar de forma decisiva para tentar atenuar os efeitos de tantos casos de abusos e violência que tanta gente sofre em nosso país.”

Marii Freire. Miséria Social

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Santarém, Pá 26 de setembro de 2022

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Buoy makes fresh water, powered by waves

Darcy Hitchcock

Coastal communities may consider desalination as a way to meet their water needs, but it’s expensive and energy intensive. The Oneka “Snowflake” is a interesting alternative.

The buoy can be anchored in 35 foot water up to two miles offshore. Waves (3-10 feet) power it. The current model can produce 10,000 liters of drinking water a week.

Because they can be quickly deployed, they could be used in disasters like the 2010 earthquake in Haiti where 800,000 people were infected with cholera, and 9000 died from it.

Oneka is working on a larger model called Iceberg that could serve small communities. Like any desalination system, it produces brine, a saltier solution than seawater, so it would be important to consider impacts on the surrounding environment.

https://inhabitat.com/oneka-water-desalinates-water-without-energy-or-toxic-waste/

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Apple Dumpling Dreams

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Bright Ideas: Apple Dumpling Dreams! There’s something special about an apple dumpling, don’t you think? Perhaps it reminds you of the changing seasons. Perhaps it conjures up childhood memories. Perhaps the earthy spices and syrupy sweetness crank up your comfort level. No matter the hypnotic effect, apple dumpling dreams can reflect the way we look at our lives. Do we deny sweets or do we nourish our bodies? “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. It’s all about perspective, moderation, and control. Thank goodness we have freedom of choice. When it comes to apple dumplings, especially now, dreams really do come true.

APPLE DUMPLING DREAMS

Ingredients:

4 Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored

1 package refrigerated pie crusts

4 star anise pieces

Ingredients for Syrup:

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup water

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

2 tablespoons butter

Ingredients for Apple Filling:

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Jolly Autumnal Monday

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Good Monday morning, friends, Romans, countrymen!  Oh wait … do you sometimes waken in the morning and have to take a few minutes to figure out who you are, where you are, and what you’re doing here?  I think I’m not quite awake yet … happens a lot as I’ve gotten older!  Anyway, I am quite certain of the fact that today is Monday, the first one of autumn, and the last one in September.  See, I haven’t completely lost my mental acuity.  Joyful is off visiting ‘Uncle Woger’ today, and since Jolly isn’t allowed in the kitchen, I sent him out for donuts ‘n coffee for our morning snack.  No bacon today … sorry guys!  So grab a snack and then we’ve got some fun stuff for your Monday morning chuckles!

Dere’s more in da kitchen if you need more … just ask


How ’bout we start off with…

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Did You Know – Sweet Potatoes — In Dianes Kitchen

Did you know that you can freeze baked Sweet Potatoes? When I get a good price on sweet potatoes, I like to buy a bag of them. Wash them, pierce them and place them on a foil covered baking sheet that is sprayed with cooking oil. Image from Istockphoto.com Bake them in a preheated 375º […]

Did You Know – Sweet Potatoes — In Dianes Kitchen

Refugee crisis: How one girl’s death personifies Europe’s guilt in Mediterranean tragedy | Middle East Eye

Around half a million Palestinian refugees lived in Syria prior to the 2011 uprising and ensuing war. After the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine that led to the establishment of the state of Israel100,000 Palestinians had fled to Syria and were generally integrated into the working class. When Rawnd’s home in Yarmouk, a Damascus camp that hosted the largest Palestinian community in the country, was destroyed by a Syrian army air strike, she fled with her mother and sisters to Jordan.

Unable to join them, her father, Mohammed, remained in Yarmouk. Throughout the Syrian war, Mohammed worked as an ambulance driver for the Syrian branch of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. When I interviewed him in 2017, he recalled harrowing stories from the conflict: starvation became a weapon of war after the Syrian regime imposed a siege on Yarmouk while it was fighting armed groups, including the Islamic State (IS). On the verge of starvation, Mohammed had lost 50 kilogrammes and had resorted to eating grass.

‘It’s a catastrophe’

Fearing he would be targeted by IS because of his social work in the camp, Mohammed fled Yarmouk and tried to reach Turkey. But en route, he says he was detained and tortured in Idlib by members of the Free Syrian Army, who accused him of being a member of IS.

When Rawnd’s home in Yarmouk camp  was destroyed by a Syrian army air strike, she fled with her mother and sisters to Jordan
When Rawnd’s home in Yarmouk camp was destroyed by a Syrian army air strike, she fled with her mother and sisters to Jordan

 

 

Even after Mohammed finally reached Germany and claimed asylum, the ordeal was far from over. The rest of his family was in Jordan, awaiting the family reunification process. Mohammed dreaded the fate of his eldest daughter, Rawnd: “I can’t sleep, I can’t eat because I am so scared that Germany won’t include her in my request for family reunification. And if they don’t, then it’s a catastrophe,” he told me back in 2017.

In December 2021, his worst fears materialised. When Mohammed applied for family reunification, Rawnd was within the accepted age range, but by the time it was approved, she had turned 18 – and thus, she was excluded from the process, preventing her from travelling to Germany with her mother and siblings.

After years of living alone in a foreign country, Rawnd desperately wanted to reunite with her family, which ultimately led her to risk the boat journey. Upon learning of his daughter’s fate, Mohammed said: “I woke up to the heartbreaking news that my daughter breathed her last at sea. I wish I could have hugged her so tight. Authorities could have saved her life had they granted her the right to reunite with us.”

Germany’s family reunification procedure and its exclusion of those over 18, a policy common in Europe, is partly to blame for Rawnd’s death. Such policies should be abolished.

Source: Refugee crisis: How one girl’s death personifies Europe’s guilt in Mediterranean tragedy | Middle East Eye

Afghan refugees find peace in Massachusetts | News | bdtonline.com

Afghan refugees find peace in Gloucester

After escaping the chaos in their home country last year, three Afghan refugees are beginning to find peace with their new lives in Gloucester.

Shamsul Rahman Dawodzai, 38, Ziarat Gul Dawoodzai, 36, and Hadayt Akbari, 21, share apartment space with two other Afghani men who were not home at the time of the interview.

“Gloucester is amazing,” said Shamsul, who is still taking English lessons. “It’s a small city but very beautiful. The people (are) nice. Everything is good.”

Shamsul has been at the apartment for the longest of the three men — he said he’s approaching his seventh month in Gloucester. In 2001, when the war began, he enrolled in the Afghan military and eventually achieved the rank of first lieutenant.

When U.S. forces pulled out of Afghanistan on Aug. 15 last year, Shamsul applied for evacuation four days later.

“An email come in from my mobile,” he explained. “’Please, you come in for airport and you leave this country because danger for you and I’m very sorry for your family’ — because my family right now is in Afghanistan, all of them.”

Shamsul said he hopes to get his green card soon so he can apply to be reunited with his wife and four children, one of which was born this March.

“This process is 50-50 right now,” he said. “The American paper work is very slow. It’s slowly, slowly going.”

Shamsul initially landed in Wisconsin and stayed at the Fort McCoy military base. Six months later, he boarded the plane for Gloucester where he was welcomed by Allies of our Afghan Allies, a local community group working with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston to resettle Afghan refugees. In addition to the five men, the group has settled an Afghan family of four in another Gloucester apartment…

Source: Afghan refugees find peace in Massachusetts | News | bdtonline.com

‘Other Places in the Country Didn’t Do This’: How One California Town Survived Covid Better Than the Rest – POLITICO

Lots of universities and communities knew that the best way to control Covid was pre-symptomatic testing. But UC Davis is a world-class agricultural research institution, and so it had an advantage they didn’t: expertise in pandemic testing — for plants.

While the leap between plant and human disease might sound like a stretch, it wasn’t to Richard Michelmore, a plant geneticist who directs the university’s Genome Center. Michelmore had spent decades doing cheap, mass-scale pandemic testing — for plant pathogens like wheat rusts and downy mildew on spinach…

The university administration, desperate for a workable plan, agreed to pay for (testing equipment). And researchers across UC Davis, from the engineering department to the medical school, began to collaborate, searching for ways to solve the enormous logistical challenges. The plant researchers worked to refine the process, using a papaya enzyme to make human spit less viscous and easier to process. A colleague in the engineering department devised a machine to shake the vials, a necessary and laborious step previously done by hand.

These scientific innovations — and an anonymous $40 million donation — allowed this college town to do something that few, if any, other communities were able to do during Covid: Starting in the fall of 2020, the university tested its students and staff every week and made free, walk-in testing available throughout the town…

Source: ‘Other Places in the Country Didn’t Do This’: How One California Town Survived Covid Better Than the Rest – POLITICO